I usually enjoy movies where scientists with guns find some lost world where dinosaurs exist.I have seen a ton of them and they are usually good.This is the exact opposite.The most exciting thing about this movie is that Hugh Beaumont is in it, another old sitcom star that I have never seen in a movie.But his barely noticeable appearance is not enough to save this movie.It's literally so boring that I bet most people won't be able to make it to when they get to the "Lost Continent".There's so much non-sense,unintelligible babble and straight out lying that it's not easy to understand what's going on.Don't waste your time with this.Go watch it done right in The Land Unknown.

"Lost Continent" is one of the toughest cinematic experiences I have had for quite some time. I'm pretty sure even audiences way back in 1951 found it hard to sit through. There's nothing wrong with the basic premise (stumbling across a previously unknown prehistoric world), even though it's been done many times before. However, it's this particular execution that kills the movie. It is ridiculously padded out - there's endless talk before the protagonists start their journey, and once the journey starts, it takes an unbelievable amount of time before they really get to see the prehistoric world, mostly because (as others here have mentioned) there is a rock climbing sequence that doesn't know when to quit. Eventually we get to see some dinosaurs, but it's not worth the wait - there are only a handful of (short) special effect sequences depicting the dinosaurs, and the stop-motion effects portraying them are kind of amateurish. This is one movie that should have been lost.

This movie is hard to get into. I mean, it's hard to look at,at first. This movie takes black and white to a whole new level as it enhances the drabness by making it gray and white. The rock climbing scenes are only saved by strong, adventurous music that seems unfit for the movie, and the rock climbing scenes without the music look more like someone's silent vacation video rather than an actual movie. In fact, this whole movie is a case where the music is much better than the film itself. I thought I was in for the most boring movie ever made, but I found myself unexpectedly entertained by the end when I saw the guy from Leave It To Beaver, John Hoyt, Cesar Romero, and Whit Bissel narrowly dodging tumbling rocks from an exploding island. But the best part of this movie is: Getting to see Sid Melcher(or whoever that guy from The Danny Thomas Show is) meeting his maker at the hands of a hungry herbivorous Triceratops, a most deserving fate indeed.

I don't quite understand the reviews for Lost Continent on IMDb. Most of the users who have taken the time to write a review have rated the movie a 5 or better. Huh? What did I miss? Sure, it's not the worst movie I've ever seen, but come on! Lost Continent is about as exciting as watching grass grow or watching paint dry or any other tired, old cliché you can think of. It's deathly dull! It seems that at least half of the movie is devoted to watching the characters either climb a mountain or just walk around. As a viewer, you get to watch all six characters going over the same boulder - and doing so very slowly - and without any tension or suspense - and often without any background music. And when our group of intrepid explorers isn't climbing over the same stage-bound rock for the fourth time, they're walking through a fake looking jungle. Actually, they're not really walking as it seems each time the camera cuts to them they're taking a fifteen minute break. How exciting is that! They don't do much and nothing much happens to them. Two-thirds of the movie is over before the first dinosaur makes an appearance. I realize that Lost Continent was made with a very small budget, but these dinosaurs are terrible. Movies made 20 years previous had better looking stop motion special effects.But as I wrote earlier, Lost Continent is far from the worst movie I've seen. The acting alone keeps this thing from being a total waste of time. The name actors in Lost Continent are Cesar Romero and Hugh Beaumont. Both do a decent enough job, but they're not given much to stretch their acting abilities. Also present, as he was in seemingly everything made in the 50s and 60s, is Whit Bissell. The name might not be recognizable, but most fans of older films would be familiar with the face and voice.